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With over 32 years of experience, Mediserve, Inc., the health care division of SU Group LLC, has been endorsed to provide equipment maintenance reduction for RBMA members. Members should expect to see discounts ranging from 10 to 30 percent on a wide variety of equipment types for diagnostic, lab, IT, office equipment and other patient care related instruments.

Provide copies of your current contracts/POs and have Mediserve perform a NO COST Financial Analysis to see what your savings could be!

RBMA endorses this program, which provides significant discounts to RBMA members as an added benefit to your membership! RBMA receives a small royalty in return for endorsing these programs, which is rolled back into member benefits by offsetting programs costs so we can keep membership dues low. The RBMA uses care in the selection of products or services to endorse but does not make any guarantee of performance of the endorsed product or services. RBMA members are solely responsible for the decision to utilize any endorsed product or service.

If you have any questions or concerns about any of RBMA's affinity programs or have a suggested program for RBMA to consider endorsing in the future, please contact us at membership@rbma.org.

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Join speaker Dominic Siewko, CHP, for lunch on Monday, April 25, when he presents, "Is Your CT Accreditation at Risk? Staying Current With the Latest Joint Commission and XR-29 Requirements," sponsored by Philips Healthcare.

Spanning a career of nearly 20 years in patient imaging, Dominic Siewko has been involved in patient safety and device registration across the country. He has managed radiation safety and regulatory programs for dozens of centers, including working with cutting edge radiation dose tracking techniques. As a member of the Medical Imaging Technology Alliance, Mr. Siewko has been involved in the creation of standards that are shaping the imaging industry today. He holds a BS in nuclear medicine technology, as well as an MBA.

If you have already registered for the Radiology Summit, please reserve your space here. This session is limited to the first 50 reservations on a first-come, first-served basis.

Otherwise, register today to attend the Radiology Summit and experience this session and much more!

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Two more Radiology Business 101 courses are now available through ShopRBMA: LED-006 – Continuing Education and Networking, and QCR-006 – Radiation Safety.

LED-006 – Continuing Education and Networking covers topics related to continuing education and related processes of recordkeeping and reporting. The course identifies sources and types of continuing education and introduces the concept of networking as related to operational management.

QCR-006 – Radiation Safety is designed to acquaint radiology managers with the importance of radiation safety and dose management.

Students may purchase each Radiology Business 101 course individually or the entire program at a discounted rate.

The RBMA A/R Survey is the most effective resource for comparing and benchmarking your practice's financial management with that of radiology practices nationwide. Your participation is vital to producing the most representative results. Support RBMA by participating in RBMA surveys.

All participants will receive an official report (a $250 value) that includes results as of the survey due date. The report will provide a column to enter your practice's indicator values, calculated in the Excel file, for easy comparison with overall results. Data submitted after the due date will be available for reporting through DataMAXX.

Please help us continue to provide trusted, dependable benchmarks by contributing your accounts receivable data. All data are held in complete confidentiality, and results are released only in aggregated form.

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The Annual Meeting of Members of the Radiology Business Management Association will be held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, at approximately 9 a.m. RBMA's Bylaws, Article IV, Section 3, require notification not more than 60 and not less than five days prior to the date of such meeting.

RBMA conducts the election of the slate of candidates for the RBMA Board of Directors electronically. This allows members who do not attend the Radiology Summit to participate in the election.

Only voting (ACT and 2ND) members may vote on the slate of candidates, which consists of nominees for two Regional Director and two Director-At-Large positions. All voting members should have received the link for the electronic ballot. If you have not received it, send a message to vote2016@rbma.org. Ballots are due by April 1.

The results of the election will be announced at the 2016 Annual Members Meeting, and the new directors will take office immediately upon the conclusion of the meeting.

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The RCCB® certification program is designed to seek out the motivated coder desiring to become an expert in the field.

Employers who have RCC-certified coders can feel confident that billing claims are submitted with accurate and compliant codes.

Coders who are RCC-certified give credibility to the vocation and are viewed as professionals in the field. Certification increases employment opportunities and creates personal success.

RCCB has made the process to become certified easier by offering computer-based testing at locations nationwide. The first test dates this year are scheduled for May 9-13. Submit your application by April 4.

Commit to taking the test and apply today! For more information on the RCCB certification program, click here.

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The drop in coding productivity after implementation of ICD-10 on Oct. 1 of last year has been a concern for many radiology businesses and revenue cycle management companies. Various strategies are being employed to get coding productivity back to levels similar to what it was under ICD-9 despite the increased complexity of ICD-10 coding.READ MORE

Aunt Minnie (registration required)"It is not appropriate for providers to list the code number or select a code number from a list of codes in place of a written diagnostic statement." This statement from the American Hospital Association Coding Clinic (fourth quarter, 2015) may come as a surprise to many physicians who order diagnostic tests, since they have always assumed that the diagnosis code is enough.
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Information ManagementThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have given the green light to adding 3,651 ICD-10 hospital inpatient procedure codes and about 1,900 ICD-10 diagnosis codes, beginning in fiscal year 2017.
According to CMS, the coding update will be implemented on Oct. 1, 2016, and will include the "backlog of all proposals for changes to the code set proposed via the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee process during the partial code freeze, and receiving public support."
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Physicians Practice (registration required)Do you remember when you were young and sitting at the beach, you would dig a hole? Then slowly it would fill up with water, or the sand would just keep filling the hole in, so you would dig harder and faster? Yet, the sand and water still filled the hole. This is not much different than managing your accounts receivable.
If you are simply working hard, or hiring more people to manage your A/R, then you are not stopping the problems from happening, so the A/R hole keeps filling up. READ MORE

HealthLeaders MediaWith more health care costs shifting to patients through high-deductible health plans and other trends, health systems and hospitals are facing the need to develop a new skill: asking patients for more money. To rise to this challenge, revenue cycle innovators are engaging patients as financial partners from hospital registration to bill collection, and every point in between.READ MORE

Diagnostic Imaging (registration required)Radiologists who spend all or most of their working hours reading cases might have gotten the impression that their practices are in a constant state of instability, if not desperation. In the absence of a routine role in sales/marketing or client relations, usually if we hear about referrers it's because we've incurred their displeasure, or are at risk of doing so.
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